Civil Ceremonies and photography

In some areas of the UK, registrars have taken it into there own hands to abolish photography during wedding and civil partnership ceremonies. This unneccesary infringement of the couple's rights to have their ceremony recorded for prosperity has caused a huge amount of upset for thousands of couples across the country over the years.

Many Registrars state that they prevent photography during the ceremony to preserve the dignity of the ceremony, yet they will allow friends, family members and other guests to photograph the event while restricting the professional photographer employed by the couple. Registrars also allow videography during most ceremonies, yet prevent still images being taken.

In response to the infringement, many photographers have now signed a petition to ask the Government to instruct Registrars to allow photographers to record what can be considered a couples most important moments together. If you would like to support the petition, please click on the link below, and add your name to the petition.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ceremonyphotos/

Thank you for your kind support.

Damp Dog Day

Canon 30D 120-300mm set to 120ish!

Just a quick note to say hello to all who we met at the ICC Dog Fun day at Wilsford at the weekend. We had a great time, even though the weather was a little damp at best. Dog owners from all over the region got together to test their dog handling skills on agility courses, flyball racing and talent contests. I am sorry I missed the fastest sausage eating contest, that sounded great.

Canon 1DMKIIN 24-70 set to 70mm

Those of you that had your pets picture taken will be able to view the images on my main site, hopefully later today, I am having a few issues with the slideshows at the moment but all being well the images will be available to view by this evening.

The slideshow is here , (or will be as soon as possible) the password is dogfunday

NOTE : I HAVE NOW CLOSED ORDERS FOR THE CHEAP PRINTS, PRINTS CAN STILL BE PURCHASED BUT AT OUR NORMAL RATES

Thanks

Paul

27/07/07

Jacqui and Martin......girls and chocolate

Little Evie gets as much attention as her Mum.

Those of you who regularly visit here will remember Jacqui and Martin from their engagement shoot a few weeks ago. Gale force winds and a blizzard short of put a dampner on that day, but the subsequent wedding was blissfull.

Martin was bouyant as he prepared himself.


A stunning Bride

Just to fill you in, Jacqui and Martin had been given a wedding package by Gaynor who had won my services in a prize draw I had donated to a competition run by British Forces Broadcasting Services(BFBS).

The boys are back in town.

The wedding was quite a simple affair, and probably the shortest I have ever attended, it was all over in less than twenty minutes, but the service was touching and heart felt.

Exchanging rings.

The wedding party retired back to the venue to indulge in copious amounts of chocolate and strawberries, alot of my pictures involved children with gooey faces, great fun.

Big kids like chocolate too

I hope you guys like the pictures, I had a wonderful time, and look forward to speaking to you soon.